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Re: Useful MI functions marked @ignore in gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo.
On 4/12/2012 1:43 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:48:22 -0700
>> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>>
>>> What's the story with these hidden, but documented MI functions?
>>
>> This was a long time ago. My guess is that these commands were part
>> of the initial design, and the design got captured as a hidden part
>> of the documentation, but the commands themselves never got implemented.
>
> That's right. In fact, the MI part of the manual is the design
> document converted to Texinfo when MI was added to the official
> version of GDB.
We'll propose something once we get our use cases down.
Eli, Joel, thanks for the background.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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